Monkey see. Monkey sue. Monkey settle. Attorneys representing a macaque monkey have agreed to a compromise in a case where they asserted the animal owned the copyright to selfie photos it had shot with a photographer’s camera. Under the deal, the photographer agreed to donate 25 percent of any future revenue from the images to charities dedicated to protecting crested macaques in Indonesia, said the lawyers from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals who filed the lawsuit. Attorneys for the group and the photographer, David Slater, on Monday asked the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to dismiss the case and throw out a lower-court decision that said animals cannot own copyrights.
President George W. Bush traveled to Chicago over the Memorial Day weekend to have a knee replacement surgery at the Rush University Medical Center's Midwest Orthopaedics.
The former president had outpatient surgery on Saturday, multiple sources familiar with the surgery told NBC Chicago, and stayed at the Peninsula Hotel on Michigan Avenue until he returned home to Dallas on Monday.
His wife Laura and a Secret Service contingent stayed with him during the weekend surgical visit. Rather than stay at Rush Medical center, doctors visited the former president at his hotel.
A representative from the former president's office confirmed to NBC News on Tuesday that Bush had "successful partial knee replacement on Saturday." He said Bush came home to Dallas on Sunday and is "doing great."
It's not clear which of Bush's knees was replaced. In 2004, Time Magazine reported that the 43rd president had torn a meniscus in his knee, but which knee was never made clear.
The president gave up jogging because of the bad knee and started mountain biking in May 2004, according to reports.
Rush University is considered a leader in joint replacement surgery.
